What are the best hotel promos for January 2024?

Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.

All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme.  However, a positive response from readers – especially our 18,000 email subscribers – means we run this monthly article as a handy summary.

I should warn you that it is a surprisingly thin selection this month. All parts of the market (bonus points offers, promotions for buying points and American Express cashback offers) are at historically low levels.

Here are quick summaries and links to the registration pages you need for each offer – do it before you forget. (I apologise to email readers if this block is mangled – scroll down to the main text area.)

For clarity, Accor, Marriott, Hyatt and Radisson are not running any global promotions at the moment.

Current offers for buying hotel points

There are no ‘buy points’ offers running at the moment. I think this is the first time this has ever happened in all the time we’ve been running this feature.

Current American Express cashback offers

It’s also worth noting the current American Express cashback offers with the big chains. These may be showing on one or more of your cards and may influence which hotels you book this month:

• Get 3,000 bonus Avios when you spend £300 at selected European Hyatt hotels (only available to British Airways American Express cardholders, expires 15th March)

• Get 7% cashback at Radisson Blu Edwardian hotels (10 hotels – nine in London / Heathrow and one in Manchester, expires 10th April)

• Get £100 back on a £500 spend at The Londoner hotel in Leicester Square (expires 10th April)

• Get £100 back on a £400 spend at The May Fair Hotel (expires 10th April, part of Radisson Rewards, website here)

Where should you credit your stays for January 2024?

Remember that, irrespective of the offers below, there is never a single ‘best’ offer.

Some offers require multiple stays to maximise the bonus, which you might not do. Some require stays to be a minimum number of nights before a bonus is earned.

You need to factor in any elite status you have, which will earn you additional status bonuses.

More importantly, you need to be able to use the points. There is no value in earning a large bonus in a scheme where you will never go on to earn enough points to get a free night.

Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)

Hilton has a promotion called ‘Points Plus’.

You can register here.  Our full article is here. It runs until 1st May.

You will earn 2,000 bonus points on all stays, plus an additional 500 boints if you select a Digital Key in the Hilton app.

You need to register in advance of your first stay during the period via the Hilton website here.  Existing bookings count and all Hilton Honors hotels are taking part.

The Hilton booking page is here.

IHG One Rewards is, slightly oddly, running a promotion for one month only.

You will earn double base IHG One Rewards points for every stay during January. There is no minimum stay requirement.

Only cash stays count. Reward and ‘points and cash’ nights do not count – you won’t get double base points on your food and drink spending on a reward night.

You need to register here. Our full article on the deal is here.

You can book your IHG stays here.

And finally …..

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